Coffee Porter Beer Chocolate Cake

Courtesy of LP: Eesti Päevaleht

This is delicious, rich, and should be enjoyed in moderation. You have been warned.

Ingredients:

Cake:
200 ml dark beer (coffee porter, if available)
50 g unsweetened cocoa powder
110 g butter, room temperature
250 g brown sugar
2 large eggs, room temperature
175 g flour
0,5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda

Icing:
200 g dark chocolate
180 g icing sugar
90 g butter, room temperature
4 tbsp dark beer

Preheat oven to 180 Celsius. Mix beer and cocoa for cake into paste. Chop up butter and beat together with sugar. Mix in eggs one at a time. Add beer/cocoa mixture. In a separate bowl, sieve flour together with baking powder and soda, then add bit by bit to sugar and beer mixture. Pour into 24/25/26 cm baking pan covered with baking paper at bottom. Bake for 30-35 min. When ready, take out and leave to cool.

While it is baking, melt dark chocolate. Beat together sugar and butter, and then add beer. Mix in dark chocolate. Cover cake with icing mixture, then leave to cool/set for about an hour.

Eat with ice cream or whipped cream.